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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past few years of empty dinner pails, and scrawny profits have produced what many observers beleve to be a significantly novel popular psychology. Business men as a group have begun to realize that unregulated monopoly and labor exploitation are phenomena which must belong to a dead age if democratic institutions are to continue. In the light of this insight, they have voluntarily submitted to stringent regulation be governmental agencies. Wall Street has accepted the SEC; The I.C.C. dominates the field of railroads with the approval of big business. Such are isolated examples of a new spirit among capitalist leaders which...
...newspapers colleagues, the "ten best plays produced in New York City" each year, limiting this choice of course to new plays in the English language. There is usually little quarrel with his selections. The Pulitzer Prize play is always included. Most of the other plays are outstanding popular successes or artistic triumphs which won special praise from the chosen few. Of course there is not room enough to give the complete text of each play, but there is no fault to be found with Mr. Mantle's editing so that the most important two-thirds of each play is given...
...gabby little capital of Sofia everybody had known for a week that something was about to happen. With Italy at war, it had become of the first significance that Bulgaria's Queen loanna is the daughter of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele and that her husband, popular little Tsar Boris III, is inclined to be pro-Italian. A year and a half ago a Bulgarian Army clique which is strongly pro-Yugoslav and pro-French staged a coup d'état and made Colonel Kimon Gueorguieff Premier (TIME, May 21, 1934. et seq.). In April 1935 Boris...
Squaring the Circle (by Valentine Katayev; translated and adapted by Charles Malamuth and Eugene Lyons; produced by Tri-Art Enterprises). This farce was first staged seven years ago by The Studio (experimental annex) of the Moscow Art Theatre, has since become the most popular of Soviet comedies. More than a million Russians have seen it. It has been produced in Paris, Vienna, London, Rome, Berlin (by Max Reinhardt) and by numerous amateur and stock companies in the U. S. Consistently boisterous and occasionally funny, it is supposed to show that Russians can laugh at the pomposities of Communist doctrine under...
...since the birds are unable to fly with their ears stopped up. U. S. distance record for homing pigeons is 2,150 mi. (Maine to Texas) at a speed of 700 mi. per day. The sport of racing homing pigeons, introduced in the U. S. about 1875, is still popular in Belgium, where nearly every village has its Societe Colombophile. The annual concourse national-Toulouse to Brussels (500 mi.)-was inaugurated in 1881, and similar races were sponsored by the London Columbarian Society...